Case Study: Institute for Systems Biology-Cancer Gateway in the Cloud accelerates cancer research with Looker

Institute for Systems Biology-Cancer Gateway in the Cloud - Customer Case Study

The Institute for Systems Biology-Cancer Gateway in the Cloud (ISB-CGC) needed a way to securely store, share, and analyze huge volumes of cancer genomic and proteomic data at global scale without relying on siloed systems or costly on-premises infrastructure. Working with Looker as part of its cloud analytics environment, ISB-CGC set out to help researchers more easily access public cancer datasets and use familiar tools to speed discovery.

Looker helped support a cloud-based solution that integrated large datasets, analytics, and computational resources so researchers could work directly in the cloud with tools like SQL, R, and Python. The result was faster and more affordable analysis of terabytes of data, with some computations that used to take days completed in minutes, and a measurable increase in research output, including many publications and new biological insights.

Institute for Systems Biology-Cancer Gateway in the Cloud

Boris Aguilar

Senior Research Scientist